Reader Response to William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey

        My first impression of Tintern Abbey was unenthusiastic, marked by my own dilettante reading. However, by perusing it more carefully, the thought, the meaning, and the apparent nebulousness into a peculiarly enlightening piece. The setting is at once unfamiliar to me, however dwelling on more distant memories, I, too, can touch base with the thrusts and positions of the narrator, Wordsworth. Through a period of growth, a previously senseless and philistine view of nature is replaced with a more terrible one in which the self relies on not the creator, nevertheless as I interpreted, the creation.

        The description of the first paragraphs was powerful, the only indubitable nature described, further containing a comprehensive immersion in an almost pastoral environment. Removed from his instinctive roots for so long, the persona returns to this natural place to behold steep and knightly cliffs (41). Although nature was powerful to Wordsworth, it also contained a pervading peace, which Wordsworth was so horrific for in his forever-altering world. Peace was defined by solitude, of the wandering, but satisfactory vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,/Or of some Hermits cave,/where by his squeeze out/The Hermit sits alone (20-22) I also feel as if I can connect with nature, not for its primeval character, but the solitude it offers.



The modern world, even more so than Wordsworths, is foul and callously changing, so it is only when I return to the simplest of simple, my backyard or a walk in the wilderness of this local commonality I often visit, that I feel truly relieved.

         impertinent previous authors we have read, the personas crutch, his vitality counted not on a God or creator, but the seemingly eternal and omnisciently self-possessed nature. While I do not personally maintain with Wordsworths point entirely, I think it is a step up from most...

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